Profile

He is the Editor of the Institute’s interdisciplinary Journal, the Greenhill Journal of Leadership and Governance; and serves as the Coordinator for the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre.

Prior to joining GIMPA, Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah taught at the University of Alberta and Athabasca University, both in Canada and at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He is also currently an Adjunct Faculty in Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University Ghana, as well as Centre for

Social Policy Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. He is also affiliated with Graduate Institute of International Relations and Development, Geneva serving as an External Faculty of the master’s in development policies and Practices Program.

Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Alberta in Canada, specializing in international relations and comparative political economy. He studied for MPhil in Development Studies as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Cambridge in the UK, having graduated with Bachelor of Arts (First Class Hons.) in Political Science and Linguistics from the University of Ghana, Legon. He also held a Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Research Fellowship at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He is an alumnus of the Graduate Institute of International Relations and Development, Geneva where he held Global South Young Scholars Research Fellowship. 

Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah has published widely in the areas of international political economy aid and international development cooperation; comparative politics of development in Africa; political economy of Ghana; and postcolonial theory. He is the author of a number of books including, Made in Ghana: Reflections on Governance and Power Shifts (University of Ghana Press, 2018); Reinventing Development: Aid Reform and Technologies of Governance in Ghana (Routledge, 2016); African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World (Ashgate, 2015).

Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah’s current research focuses on various forms of exploitation and human rights abuse in Ghana’s mining and Petro-chemical industrial complex. He has been involved in several research, consultancy and training activities funded by the Government of Ghana and international partners such as the United Nations system, the World Bank, the European Union, African Union, DANIDA, USAID, MasterCard Foundation, French Development Agency, and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. In 2021, Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah together with a global network of collaborators led by Professor Bonny Ibhawoh of McMaster University in Canada was awarded CAD $2.5million by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for the Participedia Phase 2 project on the theme, “Strengthening Democracy by Mobilizing Knowledge of Democratic Innovation”.

 Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah is a member of several professional associations and is a life-time Fellow of Cambridge Commonwealth Society. He was a winner of the Commonwealth Essay Competition, and a recipient of the Young Scholars Fellowship of the American Society of Public Administration. He was part of a team of researchers nominated by the African Union to develop Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). He is an external examiner for universities both within and outside Ghana and is a visiting scholar and trainer of trainers at the South African National School of Government. He also serves as a Senior Consultant at the UK-based Humanities Research Consultancy.

Apart from being an astute and internationally recognized academic, Prof. Mawuko-Yevugah worked as a journalist, serving as the Political Editor and Parliamentary Correspondence of the Business and Financial Times. He also worked with the Institute of Economic Affairs, Ghana as a Research Associate, and the Program Officer of the Institute’s Governance unit.